I had been running 12.04 for a few days and it was awful, couldn't find my drives couldn't connect to the internet. Blah blah. So I pick up Linux Format and load the new 12.10 on to my desktop and even though I selected the option for it not to delete my files, it did. I'm a whole new user. I imagine I misinterpreted something, that's my fault. But is there a way to get my files back? ._.

After I enter my password I don't get any feedback just another prompt to enter a command. I figured it might have just done it anyways but I went through a separate file directory and still found nothing. I also entered my profile name correctly I didn't just copy and paste. (Not knocking the fact it was mispelled just letting you know that isn't the issue.)

you shouldn't get any output, most *nix commands only get verbose when things go wrong. The commands only changes the ownerships, they will still be in the old home directory but you can read and move them now.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Albert Einstein)